Example sentences of "it cost he " in BNC.

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1 Including the gearbox , it cost him £1,000 .
2 It cost him the tournament .
3 On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning .
4 By 1802 John Wayland — a member of a famous Frome family , some of whom were to be very eminent in Baptist circles in America — was the new owner , and rates on it cost him 4d. ; lucky old Mrs. Muir , then , who had taken over by 1804 , and was only charged half the price …
5 LAWRENCE Baker from Southend reckons the £10 annual premium it cost him to add DAS legal expenses insurance to his household policy was the best tenner he ever spent .
6 It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae .
7 And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale .
8 It cost him two marriages .
9 It cost him no effort , no extra pain .
10 One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market .
11 then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art .
12 It cost him the land he had so longed to enter .
13 From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) .
14 His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all .
15 Miranda could see by his grip on the newspaper , the thinness of his lips , and above all how he directed his words to her , not to his daughter , how much it cost him to refuse her anything .
16 I could see the effort it cost him .
17 Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig .
18 But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure .
19 Coupled with his backing for the Beeching report , however , it cost him his seat .
20 A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber .
21 He 's down because of er what it cost him .
22 It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford .
23 I 've told Dizzy that I want the whole works , and I do n't care what it costs him . ’
24 He has said he does not care what it costs him , he is standing on a matter of principle .
25 who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her .
26 He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work
27 Yes what did he , how much did it cost him ?
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